Mexico, 1981.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Manolo Márquez
Eres un fantasma: Untitled
2016
Archival pigment print
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
130 x 88.66 cm
Eres un fantasma (You are a ghost) (2016) constitutes a collection of forms photographed in the public space during urbans derives. “Thinking the city as a place charged with symbols, my recent work is an affirmation on how it is possible to connect with allegorical situations, archetypes and even myths through photographic practice”. This way Márquez makes of the “space practice and the wander, a way to reveal another order of the world. The oeuvres from Eres un fantasma cultivate a tension between the photographic register and the sculpture, making visible the potential of the ordinary objects to transform themselves in disconcerting structures. Our perception of the space is dominated by the images that can surpass the physical experiences, then stays the doubt if it would possible to live in the images
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Manolo Márquez
Eres un fantasma: Untitled
2016
Archival pigment print
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
58 x 72.4 cm
Eres un fantasma (You are a ghost) (2016) constitutes a collection of forms photographed in the public space during urbans derives. “Thinking the city as a place charged with symbols, my recent work is an affirmation on how it is possible to connect with allegorical situations, archetypes and even myths through photographic practice”. This way Márquez makes of the “space practice and the wander, a way to reveal another order of the world. The oeuvres from Eres un fantasma cultivate a tension between the photographic register and the sculpture, making visible the potential of the ordinary objects to transform themselves in disconcerting structures. Our perception of the space is dominated by the images that can surpass the physical experiences, then stays the doubt if it would possible to live in the images
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Manolo Márquez
Eres un fantasma: Untitled
2016
Archival pigment print
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
88 x 58 cm
Eres un fantasma (You are a ghost) (2016) constitutes a collection of forms photographed in the public space during urbans derives. “Thinking the city as a place charged with symbols, my recent work is an affirmation on how it is possible to connect with allegorical situations, archetypes and even myths through photographic practice”. This way Márquez makes of the “space practice and the wander, a way to reveal another order of the world. The oeuvres from Eres un fantasma cultivate a tension between the photographic register and the sculpture, making visible the potential of the ordinary objects to transform themselves in disconcerting structures. Our perception of the space is dominated by the images that can surpass the physical experiences, then stays the doubt if it would possible to live in the images
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Manolo Márquez
Mexico, 1981.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Marquez is an artist and photography and art in the universities Centro and American School Foundation (Mexico City).
Márquez has exhibited individually and collectively in both Mexico and the United States, including Centro de la Imagen, The Maxon Mills Exhibition Space, Wassaic, NY (2015) and the II Bienal de Arte de Veracruz, Xalapa, México (2014), among others.
Recipient of the Fulbright and Mexico’s National Council for the arts grants and finalist of the Latin American Photobook Award organised by the museum of photography Foto Museo 4 caminos (Mexico City), his oeuvre belongs to the Archives of the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City) or the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library, George Eastman Museum, (Rochester, NY).
His book project Eres un Fantasma was published in 2017, accompanied by a solo show in Fototeca de Veracruz. In 2017, he also did an artist residency at Visual Studies Workshop, in Rochester, NY and published an essay for Blog de crítica, a project coordinated by SOMA and Alumnos 47.
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The work of Manolo Márquez mixes photography, video and text to invoque immersives narratives upon the language of photography. Emulating the conceptual strategies of the seventies and contemplative his work is “a quest for romantic images in the contemporary world”. His processes conjure a narrative of loss, absence and the human condition through the use of visual metaphors.
Eres un fantasma (You are a ghost), 2016, is a collection of forms photographed in the public space during urbans derives. “Thinking the city as a place charged with symbols, my recent work is an affirmation on how it is possible to connect with allegorical situations, archetypes and even myths through photographic practice”.
This way Márquez makes of his practice a way to reveal another order of the world. The oeuvres from Eres un fantasma cultivate a tension between photographic registry and sculpture, making appear the potential of the ordinary objects to transform themselves in disconcerting structures.
“Our perception of the space is dominated by the images that can surpass the physical experiences, then stays the doubt if it would possible to live in the images” adds Márquez.
